In answer to your query, without being verbose, this site might help you understand “what motivates politicians.”
In case you didn’t feel like clicking through (live), here’s a longer answer to the same question:
“Many of the same things that motivate you,” …except that you, if you are in the largest percentage of distributed brain-types, might have some (valid, evolutionarily-desirable) emotional reasons for not obtaining those things “as fast as possible, with fewest resources expended.” Sociopaths lack any such internal crises, or impediments to action, because they lack the emotions that cause strain (and social harmony during market-based peacetime) for the rest of us.
Of course, the prior may be controversial, so for that reason, I’ll provide the following non-mainstream piece of writing:
“Why Does the World Feel Wrong?”
I think the prior sites are worth reading and thinking about. It seems to me we already have superhuman AGI, but not radically superintelligent synthetic superhuman AGI. Voluntary markets are superhuman, and optimal, given human intelligence, because they allow all modular parts of the social brain to communicate. The coercive sector doesn’t facilitate this, and produces a stupider, less need-satisfying “Society of Mind”: government.
In any case, I’ve already gone beyond answering the question. I hope there are at least a few people here who get some value out of this answer. I (and Stanley Milgram, and Lysander Spooner, and Henry David Thoreau) have found that, generally, either people conform to the incorrect idea that they are “represented” by politicians, or they generally conform to authority (or have other toxic, high-level biases), or they already believe that politicians lack any good intentions, but stop short of comprehending the true reality, because delusion is more pleasant, and makes them feel less of an onus to do anything realistic about such a large and dangerous problem.
The few that are left call themselves “libertarians” and also continue to do nothing, in the most shocking example of appeasement since the French (and German public) in WWII.
In answer to your query, without being verbose, this site might help you understand “what motivates politicians.”
In case you didn’t feel like clicking through (live), here’s a longer answer to the same question: “Many of the same things that motivate you,” …except that you, if you are in the largest percentage of distributed brain-types, might have some (valid, evolutionarily-desirable) emotional reasons for not obtaining those things “as fast as possible, with fewest resources expended.” Sociopaths lack any such internal crises, or impediments to action, because they lack the emotions that cause strain (and social harmony during market-based peacetime) for the rest of us.
Of course, the prior may be controversial, so for that reason, I’ll provide the following non-mainstream piece of writing: “Why Does the World Feel Wrong?”
I think the prior sites are worth reading and thinking about. It seems to me we already have superhuman AGI, but not radically superintelligent synthetic superhuman AGI. Voluntary markets are superhuman, and optimal, given human intelligence, because they allow all modular parts of the social brain to communicate. The coercive sector doesn’t facilitate this, and produces a stupider, less need-satisfying “Society of Mind”: government.
In any case, I’ve already gone beyond answering the question. I hope there are at least a few people here who get some value out of this answer. I (and Stanley Milgram, and Lysander Spooner, and Henry David Thoreau) have found that, generally, either people conform to the incorrect idea that they are “represented” by politicians, or they generally conform to authority (or have other toxic, high-level biases), or they already believe that politicians lack any good intentions, but stop short of comprehending the true reality, because delusion is more pleasant, and makes them feel less of an onus to do anything realistic about such a large and dangerous problem.
The few that are left call themselves “libertarians” and also continue to do nothing, in the most shocking example of appeasement since the French (and German public) in WWII.
Which leaves people like me to weed peas amongst the loonies, until my impending lobotomy. -R.P. McMurphy